Ukraine List

window.document.getElementById(’post-170′).parentNode.className += ‘ adhesive_post’;This site is first and foremost a list of web-based travel and living resources for Ukraine, but it is also a blog. Basically, during the winter months the blog is more prominent, and when travel picks up you will see more of a travel focus. The blog posts are fairly random, and […]

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This story isn’t new, in fact it is from 2005, but the radio show This American Life featured last week a radio piece on three Ukrainian immigrant punk rockers who went for a boat ride from New York City and ended up getting shipwrecked within sight of the city’s skyscrapers.

The radio piece focuses on Alex […]

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ForUm had an article that says the number of tourists going to Ukraine is at 15 million this year. The article is a bit vague though as it says this number starts from ‘early’ 2006, and this story was reported on 15 December. So is it from February though November? Or January through December? I […]

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I have fallen behind a bit on adding new websites to my site; they are just piling up in a bookmark folder right now. So to rectify this, this weekend and next week I will be adding the new arrivals to this site. In conjunction with this my blog posts will be featuring the interesting […]

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I was browsing through Flickr and came across this photo of the town of Velke Slemence, which is divided with part of the town in Slovakia and part in Ukraine. Just think about it for a moment. This village used to be the frontier between the USSR and Czechoslovakia, then Ukraine and Czechoslovakia, then Ukraine […]

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I was looking at The Spamhaus Project website and noticed that the number one spammer is from Ukraine. He goes by the name Alex Blood, Alexander Mosh, Alex Polyakov, and AlekseyB. You can read about on the ROKSO page of Spamhaus. ROKSO stands for Register of Known Spam Operations.
Actually, Ukraine isn’t one of the worst […]

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This week I have been (and will continue) to populate the pages listing my favorite websites on Ukraine. I have several categories: top ten overall, ten most useful, and ten best designed among others. In most cases I don’t have ten sites listed yet, but I should have them filled out by the end of […]

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After Google Analytics informed me that Technorati was sending most visitors to my site, I thought I would do a little digging on Technorati. Of course you get different content than other sites as it is a blog search site. First of all, I must confess that I am not a huge fan of travelblogs. […]

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